At the urging of multiple friends, I'm going to try to keep up a little blog where I'll give my recommendations and reviews of tunes both old and new. Hopefully I'll even work in some concert reviews and various opinions if I can make them sound less than pretentious. So, here goes...
If I'm going to start making recommendations I have to start at the beginning, from where almost all of the music I will recommend will stem. I don't know where this quote is from, if someone knows, please tell me...
"Listen to me, heavy metal is just ripped off blues chords. You've been listening to stolen riffs your whole life, bitch." That applies to lot more than heavy metal. Chances are if it's got a guitar in, it was written and performed first and better by someone from Mississippi, maybe Louisiana. Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin...they all stole from the blues and every one since has stolen from them. So, the first song has to be a blues song. Rather than post an artist that most people are aware of like Robert Johnson or Muddy Waters to begin with, I'm going to go with a performance by one of the more underrated bluesmen. Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Worried Life Blues".
Now, a few years back Clutch, a band that crosses a few genres, took this song and added their own touch to it.
The harmonica in that song is played by Eric Oblander of Five Horse Johnson. Here's the only clip on You Tube I could find of my favorite song of theirs, "Blood Don't Pay"...
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